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"Selective Empathy"

"Selective Empathy": At the "Opinionator" blog of The New York Times, Linda Greenhouse has a post that begins, "In overturning a death sentence this week of a Korean War veteran whose lawyer failed to inform the jury about the man's combat-related traumatic stress disorder, the Supreme Court drew cheers from veterans' groups and death-penalty opponents. But it also raised a question: Is selective empathy better than no empathy at all?"

Full post as published by How Appealing on December 04, 2009 (boomark / email).